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Nicole L.5's avatar
Nicole L.5
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9 years ago

java api+tomcat: HttpsURLConnectionOldImpl cannot be cast to HttpsURLConnection

When using the client API on a web app under tomcat, it would seem that all client requests I've tried so far give me this error: com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionOldIm...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago

Hi Nicole, we came across this looking into this for you:

https://community.oracle.com/thread/1150553

It looks like you might be including an old or obsolete JAR in your deployment, and classes in that JAR are somehow conflicting with the newer/correct version of the classes. 

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